Your 2025-2027 @AoIR Executive Committee, taking office in October 2025 at #AoIR2025 ...

President: Sarah Roberts
Vice President: Andra Siibak
Immediate Past President: Nicholas John
Secretary: Nathalie Schäfer
Treasurer: Robert W. Gehl
Graduate Student Rep: Lynrose Jane Genon
Open Seats: Admire Mare, Rebecca Scharlach, & Meg Jing Zeng.

Looks like the future of AoIR is in great hands! Thanks to everyone who ran, and everyone who voted!

We are hosting the #AoIR2025Symposium (small conference) with the PGMT Lab here in Bremen!
Two packed days "From Platform Governance to Generative AI", with plenary speakers Tarleton Gillespie, @Nhelberger, @tpoell, @ubiquity75, @jilliancyork.

We have just published the detailed programme and opened registration for non-speakers:

📆 3-4 June 2025, Bremen, Germany
ℹ️ Info and Programme: https://platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpoint-symposium-2025/
✍️ Direct Link to Registration (10-50$): https://members.aoir.org/event-6113333

See you in Bremen!

📘 “We do not marshal your feed’: How Alt Tech platforms (re)conceptualise safety”

New paper by our lab members @Palomaviejo and @rscarlets published today in the Platforms & Society Journal!

This study dives deep into how #AltTechPlatforms reinterpret the #value of #safety challenging mainstream social media norms.
Using a mixed-method approach, the authors reveal that these platforms reject traditional safety measures, framing them as #censorship.

👉 Full article: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/29768624251327703

📣 Online Talk Series (15): @blakeplease & @reynoldscj - “Malcontents as method: How bad actors offer an alternative vision of good governance on social media”
🗓️January 28, 2025 🕛3-4 pm (CET) 📍Online Event

👉 To the Event and Registration: https://platform-governance.org/online-talk-series/session-15-blake-hallinan-cj-reynolds-malcontents-as-method-how-bad-actors-offer-an-alternative-vision-of-good-governance-on-social-media/

📣 Together with @AoIR, we are pleased to announce the next #AoIRFlashpointSymposium, entitled "From Platform Governance to Generative AI: Concepts, Methods, and Data for Studying Tech Governance", which will be hosted by the PGMT Lab in Bremen, on 3 and 4 June 2025.

Submissions are now open. The deadline is 15 February 2025.

The complete Call for Papers, more information on the symposium and the link for submissions are available here: https://platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpoint-symposium-2025/